Couldn't agree more with this comment. I've had exactly the same frustration trying to get cameras months/years apart that will work. You have to open each one up and hack it yourself (and OpenIPC may support it or not), and nowadays they are protected from loading firmware easily (tiny UART/debug ports, disabled UBoot loader, etc.).

I also wish there were an option for someone to buy cameras with open HW/SW, to get away from the random cloud services they want you to open your network up to with cheap cameras.